Just getting started with Bulletin? Then you’ll love this: Thursday at 11am PST, we’re offering a free webinar going over the basics of our service. We’ll be covering a lot, but once you’re done with this webinar, you’ll be able to easily create your own text messaging campaigns and much more.

Meet the king of productivity apps. Evernote is the perfect tool for managing to-do lists and keeping research, notes, reminders, photos, and more in one easy to use, easy to navigate app. Evernote makes it effortless to remember [...]

Recently, a blog article titled “The Challenges and Future of SMS Technology” was posted. This article argued that “even 21 years after its invention, sending an SMS is hard.” The challenges discussed throughout the article focus on business challenges in regards to text messaging, spam, and more.

But is this true? Is sending a text message hard, even for businesses? Not anymore.

In a recent article for Wired, John Lauer, CEO of ZipWhip, gives us his take on SMS today:

“The text message is and will remain the most ubiquitous medium for messaging. There [...]

2013 was the year of innovative mobile technology. Twenty years ago, we used our mobile devices primarily for calling and, really, not much else. Today, our mobile devices help run our entire lives and without them we would be lost. We book appointments through our devices, navigate directions to our favorite hotspots, calculate tips at restaurants, and take shameless “selfies” in public to send to our friends. Some of us are even get caught carrying on conversations with our mobile device, through our favorite travel companion, Siri. There’s no arguing that mobile is a huge part of our lives, and it’s only getting bigger.

QR (Quick Response) codes are gaining popularity due to their mass adoption by larger global brands and the fact they can carry quite a lot of information. You may have seen these little squares used on labels of your favourite soda, or perhaps on a billboard or magazine advert. QR codes can carry a myriad of information, in fact you’d be amazed at how much can be stored within a QR code and you’d also be surprised to find out that due to nifty error correction up to 30% of the QR code can be damaged with the resultant [...]

We’ve all heard the hype over the past 10 years with media and bloggers proclaiming that today is the day SMS died. Heard these before…

MMS will kill SMS

‘Push to talk’ will kill SMS (actual quote from a Telco executive)

Blackberry Messenger will kill SMS

Email on Smart Phones will kill SMS

iMessage has killed TXT

Poor wee 160 character SMS/TXT messaging is the first victim in the marketing of any new service and the first to be bullied in the media and by bloggers. It’s a simple victim too. It doesn’t need the spotlight, nor want it. It cant afford the spotlight as there is no owner of it with a huge marketing [...]